Bare trees furred with snow above a half-frozen river

Two bare trees stand close to the viewer with snow lying along every branch, their forms drawn against a white fog that has closed off the whole distance. Snow-covered conifers show faintly behind them and more bare trunks stand off to the right. The ground is deep in snow and a river runs through the middle of the picture, part frozen, the open water holding a little pale light.

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) was the grandest landscape painter of the American West. Born in Solingen and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he trained at the Düsseldorf academy before joining Frederick W. Lander's overland survey to the Rocky Mountains in 1859 — the first of the western journeys that gave him his subject. From the sketches he brought back he built enormous exhibition canvases such as The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (1863) and Among the Sierra Nevada, California (1868), in which shafts of light break over peaks and mirrored lakes on a scale that drew paying crowds. His paintings are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art.

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